n. [ From Michael Faraday, the English electrician. ] (Elec.) The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive force of one volt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Michael Faraday, the English electrician. ] (Elec.) the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96, 490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

{ } n. (Med.) The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Faradized p. pr. & vb. n. Faradizing ] (Med.) To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. -- Far"a*diz`er n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ Macro- + farad. ] (Elec.) See Megafarad. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Mega- + farad. ] (Elec.) One of the larger measures of electrical capacitance, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Micro- + farad. ] (Elec.) The millionth part of a farad. [ 1913 Webster ]